title: Building the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health--NIGH: can we engage and empower the public voices of nurses worldwide?
abstract: The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) is a major grassroots-to-global movement of "daring, caring and sharing" of nursing and others around the world inspired by the outstanding legacy of Florence Nightingale. The Nightingale Initiative envisions and emulates what Nightingale might have accomplished if she lived in the digital age and with international agencies such as the United Nations and World Health Organization. It challenges nurses everywhere to think and act both locally and globally, to raise their voices about the contribution of nursing, and to become authentic advocates, particularly in addressing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
authors.affiliation: International Co-Director at Nightingale Initiative for Global Health NIGH, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Deva-Marie
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Barbara M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Dossey
authors.forename: Cynda H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Rushton
mesh_terms: D004522:Educational Status; D014943:Global Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological
keywords: Nightingale; global health; nursing